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November 2019, 12(7): 2163-2175. doi: 10.3934/dcdss.2019139

Ground state homoclinic solutions for a second-order Hamiltonian system

Xiaoping Wang

Department of Mathematics, Xiangnan University, Chenzhou, Hunan 42300, China

Received January 2018 Revised May 2018 Published December 2018

Fund Project: This work is partially supported by the NNFC (No: 11471278) of China and Key project of Hunan Provincial Education Department (13A093)

Consider the second-order Hamiltonian system

$ \ddot{u}-L(t)u+\nabla W(t, u) = 0, $

where

$ t\in {\mathbb{R}}, u\in {\mathbb{R}}^{N} $

$ L: \mathbb{R}\rightarrow {\mathbb{R}}^{N\times N} $

and

$ W: {\mathbb{R}}\times {\mathbb{R}}^{N}\rightarrow {\mathbb{R}} $

. We mainly study the case when both

$ L $

and

$ W $

are periodic in

$ t $

and

$ 0 $

belongs to a spectral gap of

$ \sigma\left(-\frac{d^2}{dt^2} +L\right) $

. We prove that the above system possesses a ground state homoclinic solution under assumptions which are weaker than the ones known in the literature.

Keywords: Homoclinic solution, hamiltonian system, periodic potentials, ground state homoclinic solution, variational method.

Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 34C37; Secondary: 58E05.

Citation: Xiaoping Wang. Ground state homoclinic solutions for a second-order Hamiltonian system. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - S, 2019, 12 (7) : 2163-2175. doi: 10.3934/dcdss.2019139

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References:

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[2]	F. Antonacci and P. Magrone, Second order nonautonomous systems with symmetric potential changing sign, Rend. Mat. Appl., 18 (1998), 367-379.
[3]	P. Caldiroli and P. Montechiari, Homoclinic orbites for second order Hamiltonian systems with potential changing sign, J. Commu. Appl. Nonlinear Anal., 1 (1994), 97-129.
[4]	S. T. Chen and X. H. Tang, Improved results for Klein-Gordon-Maxwell systems with general nonlinearity, Discrete Contin Dyn Syst-A, 38 (2018), 2333-2348. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2018096.
[5]	V. Coti Zelati, I. Ekeland and E. Sere, A variational approach to homoclinic orbits in Hamiltonian systems, Math. Ann., 288 (1990), 133-160. doi: 10.1007/BF01444526.
[6]	V. Coti Zelati and P. H. Rabinowitz, Homoclinic orbits for second second order Hamiltonian systems possessing superquadratic potentials, J. Amer. Math. Soc., 4 (1991), 693-727. doi: 10.1090/S0894-0347-1991-1119200-3.
[7]	Y. H. Ding and M. Girardi, Periodic and homoclinic solutions to a class of Hamiltonian systems with the potentials changing sign, Dynam. Systems Appl., 2 (1993), 131-145.
[8]	Y. H. Ding, Existence and multiplicity results for homoclinic solutions to a class of Hamiltonian systems, Nonlinear Anal., 25 (1995), 1095-1113. doi: 10.1016/0362-546X(94)00229-B.
[9]	Y. H. Ding and C. Lee, Homoclinics for asymptotically quadratic and superquadratic Hamiltonian systems, Nonlinear Anal., 71 (2009), 1395-1413. doi: 10.1016/j.na.2008.10.116.
[10]	D. E. Edmunds and W. D. Evans, Spectral Theory and Differential Operators, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1987.
[11]	Y. Egorov and V. Kondratiev, On Spectral Theory of Elliptic Operators, Birkhäuser, Basel, 1996. doi: 10.1007/978-3-0348-9029-8.
[12]	W. Kryszewski and A. Szulkin, Generalized linking theorem with an application to a semilinear Schrödinger equation, Adv. Differ. Equ., 3 (1998), 441-472.
[13]	G. B. Li and A. Szulkin, An asymptotically periodic Schrödinger equation with indefinite linear part, Commun. Contemp. Math., 4 (2002), 763-776. doi: 10.1142/S0219199702000853.
[14]	Y. Lv and C. L. Tang, Existence of even homoclinic orbits for second-order Hamiltonian systems, Nonlinear Anal., 67 (2007), 2189-2198. doi: 10.1016/j.na.2006.08.043.
[15]	M. Izydorek and J. Janczewska, Homoclinic solutions for a class of second order Hamiltonian systems, J. Differential Equations, 219 (2003), 375-389. doi: 10.1016/j.jde.2005.06.029.
[16]	W. Omana and M. Willem, Homoclinic orbits for a class of Hamiltonian systems, Differential Integral Equations, 5 (1992), 1115-1120.
[17]	Z. Q. Ou and C. L. Tang, Existence of homoclinic orbits for the second order Hamiltonian systems, J. Math. Anal. Appl., 291 (2004), 203-213.
[18]	A. Pankov, Periodic nonlinear Schrödinger equation with application to photonic crystals, Milan J. Math., 73 (2005), 259-287. doi: 10.1007/s00032-005-0047-8.
[19]	P. H. Rabinowitz, Periodic and Heteroclinic orbits for a periodic Hamiltonian systems, Ann. Inst. H. Poincaré Anal. Non Linéaire, 6 (1989), 331-346. doi: 10.1016/S0294-1449(16)30314-6.
[20]	P. H. Rabinowitz, Homoclinic orbits for a class of Hamiltonian systems, Proc, Roy. Soc. Edinburgh Sect. A, 114 (1990), 33-38. doi: 10.1017/S0308210500024240.
[21]	P. H. Rabinowitz and K. Tanaka, Some results on connecting orbits for a class of Hamiltonian systems, Math. Z., 206 (1991), 473-499. doi: 10.1007/BF02571356.
[22]	A. Szulkin and T. Weth, Ground state solutions for some indefinite variational problems, J. Funct. Anal., 257 (2009), 3802-3822. doi: 10.1016/j.jfa.2009.09.013.
[23]	X. H. Tang, Ground state solutions of Nehari-Pankov type for a superlinear Hamiltonian elliptic system on $ \mathbb{R} ^N$, Canad. Math. Bull., 58 (2015), 651-663. doi: 10.4153/CMB-2015-019-2.
[24]	X. H. Tang, Non-Nehari manifold method for asymptotically periodic Schrödinger equations, Sci. China Math., 58 (2015), 715-728. doi: 10.1007/s11425-014-4957-1.
[25]	X. H. Tang, X. Y. Lin and J. S. Yu, Nontrivial solutions for Schrödinger equation with local super-quadratic conditions, J. Dyn. Differ. Equ, (2018), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10884-018-9662-2.
[26]	X. H. Tang and L. Xiao, Homoclinic solutions for nonautonomous second order Hamiltonian systems with a coercive potential, J. Math. Anal. Appl., 351 (2009), 586-594. doi: 10.1016/j.jmaa.2008.10.038.
[27]	X. H. Tang and L. Xiao, Homoclinic solutions for a class of second-order Hamiltonian systems, Nonlinear Anal., 71 (2009), 1140-1152. doi: 10.1016/j.na.2008.11.038.
[28]	X. H. Tang and X. Y. Lin, Homoclinic solutions for a class of second-order Hamiltonian systems, J. Math. Anal. Appl., 354 (2009), 539-549. doi: 10.1016/j.jmaa.2008.12.052.
[29]	X. H. Tang and X. Y. Lin, Existence of infinitely many homoclinic orbits in Hamiltonian systems, Proc. Royal Soc. Edinburgh A, 141 (2011), 1103-1119. doi: 10.1017/S0308210509001346.
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[33]	D. L. Wu, X. P. Wu and C. L. Tang, Subharmonic and homoclinic solutions for second order Hamiltonian systems with new superquadratic conditions, Chaos Solitons and Fractals, 73 (2015), 183-190. doi: 10.1016/j.chaos.2015.01.019.
[34]	X. Wu and W. Zhang, Existence and multiplicity of homoclinic solutions for a class of damped vibration problems, Nonlinear Anal., 74 (2011), 4392-4398. doi: 10.1016/j.na.2011.03.059.
[35]	J. Yang and F. Zhang, Infinitely many homoclinic orbits for the second order Hamiltonian systems with super-quadratic potentials, Nonlinear Anal.RWA, 10 (2009), 1417-1423. doi: 10.1016/j.nonrwa.2008.01.013.
[36]	M. H. Yang and Z. Q. Han, The existence of homoclinic solutions for second-order Hamiltonian systems with periodic potentials, Nonlinear Anal.RWA, 12 (2011), 2742-2751. doi: 10.1016/j.nonrwa.2011.03.019.
[37]	Q. Q. Zhang, Homoclinic orbits for discrete Hamiltonian systems with indefinite linear part, Commun. Pure Appl. Anal., 14 (2015), 1929-1940. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2015.14.1929.
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[40]	W. M. Zou, Infinitely many homoclinic orbits for the second-order Hamiltonian systems, Appl. Math. Lett., 16 (2003), 1283-1287. doi: 10.1016/S0893-9659(03)90130-3.

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